Configuring Agent Settings

Desktop Central installs an light-weight non-intrusive agent on the
computers that have to be managed using Desktop Central. You have an option
to configure the settings for these agents.

Agent General Settings

Click the Admin
tab to invoke the Admin
page.

Click the Agent Settings
link available under Global Settings.

The General Settings tab
is selected by default. You can specify the following from here:

Server IP Address -
The IP Address of the computer where Desktop Central server is
installed is displayed here. The agents residing in the
client computers communicate to the Desktop Central server using
this IP Address. Desktop Central automatically detects the server
IP Address whenever Desktop Central Server is started. If you
wish to automatically detect and save the IP Address, select the
Automatically detect and save
the IP Address change option. You
can also enter the DNS name of the Server.

Enable Secured Communication
- Select this option, if the communication between the Agent and
the Desktop Central Server should be secured (HTTPS)

Enable Checksum Validation
- Select this option, to verify if the patch/software binaries
that are downloaded from Desktop Central server are verified for
integrity using "Checksum Validataion (md5 algorithm)".
If the checksum fails, then the installation will be aborted.

Restrict Users from Uninstalling
Agents from Control Panel - Selecting this option will
ensure that users do not uninstall the Desktop Central Agents
from their computer.

Restricting
Users from Stopping Desktop Central Agent service - Choosing this option will restrict
the users from manually stopping the Desktop Central agent service.
However, administrator can stop the Desktop Central agent
service by following the steps mentioned below:

Click
Tools
on Desktop Central server

Choose
System Manager

Select
the computer, on which you wanted to stop the service and
click Manage

Perform Patch Scanning
- Select this option if Patch Scanning has to be initiated immediately
after the agent installation. If this option is not selected,
Patch Scanning will only happen when it is scheduled or when On
Demand scanning is initiated.

Perform Inventory Scanning
- Select this option if Inventory Scanning has to be initiated
immediately after the agent installation. If this option
is not selected, Inventory Scanning will only happen when it is
scheduled or when On Demand scanning is initiated.

Enable Firewall Settings
- Desktop Central requires the Windows Firewall running in the
client computers to be configured for using all its features.
Select this option to configure the firewall for enabling Remote
Administration, DCOM, File and Printer Sharing, and Simple File
Sharing in Windows XP.

Configuration Settings

When a computer is added to the OU / Active Directory, all configurations
that were deployed to the group will automatically get applied to
the newly added computers. Configuration settings will help you to specify
the time when and how often should Desktop Central look for the newly
added computers and deploy the configuration. This can be customized
as per the options mentioned below.

Click the Admin
tab to invoke the Admin
page.

Click Configuration Settings

Under Auto-detect OU/Group changes and Apply Configuration,
click the checkbox to configure the settings.

Enable "Detect and Apply
Configurations at every System Startup or User Logon"to apply configurations to computers during user logon and
system startup.

If you choose to enable theconfigurations
at scheduled time, then the change detection will
happen at the nearest refresh cycle and the configurations will
be applied after the specified time subsequently .

ClickSave Changes.

Note : If the configurations
are applied to a Custom Group/OU/Active Directory, the newly
added computers will have all the configurations applied to it automatically.
Whereas, if any computer is removed from the Active Directory / OU/
Custom Group, the applied configurations will not be removed automatically.